Shark Jumping?

One of my favorite shows has been "Bones," despite the attempts of the network it is on to utterly confuse me in my efforts to find it (foiled by tiVo! ha!). This season has been been rocky, though, which I suppose was somewhat to be expected with the cast shake up caused by one of the characters being shown to be an apprentice to a serial killer and sent to prison. So they have had a rotating series of "replacement Zaks," which was entertaining at first.

It seems to me, though, that over the past few months the series has gotten away from where it started, and not in a positive way. For some reason, the character of Temperance Brennan has become almost cartoonish: her lack of social skills has really passed beyond believable to the point where she seems almost tolerated or even indulged because of her amazing intellect (shades of House?) However, this past week saw some shenanigans which I cannot imagine Brennan of other seasons involved in-- she is going to the wake of a Jeffersonian colleague, and from her behavior you would think it is the first one she has ever been to-- and comes to believe that the deceased has been murdered due to some visual clues apparent at the open coffin viewing. She gets Booth to sneak the body out of the home and transported to the lab for tests. The same Brennan who always turned up her nose if a victim had flesh? Who insisted that she only worked with bones? And Booth not only goes along with it, but steals cash from the deceased's pocket. What?